As we continue to prioritize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 119 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, focuses on Abuse and Red Flags, finding courage, dealing with Narcissism. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 61 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 61, titled “Relationship Toxicity, Red Flags, Abuse and the Impact of not Even Knowing it”, with guest, Dr. Shelley Morgan. Her journey is a powerful e...
Jun 18, 2025•24 min
As we go extend to prioritize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 118 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, focuses on it’s more than just a diagnosis, coming to terms with mortality and death. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 43 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 43, titled “The Journey is more about my death than it is about the cancer”, with guest, Rishma Dhalla. Her journey is a profound example ...
Jun 04, 2025•25 min
As we proceed to prioritize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 117 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, focuses on Reframing Struggles: Finding Flow Through Adversity. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 87 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 87, titled “From Survivor of Circumstance to Warrior of Flow”, with guest, Inga Tkachenko Ramage. Her journey is a profound example of what it means to embrace th...
May 21, 2025•26 min
In this deeply personal and inspiring episode, Genevieve shares the journey of redefining success and reconnecting with her heart’s true calling. As the firstborn in a traditional Italian family—with a father who immigrated from Italy—the expectation was clear: get married, have children, and follow a conventional path. Though raised in a supportive environment, Genevieve always felt something was missing. From a young age, she held an unshakable wonder about where her family would come from, kn...
May 07, 2025•58 min
As we proceed to prioritize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 115 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, The Cost of Always Being Strong: Navigating Emotional Labour and Compassion Fatigue. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 54 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 54, titled “She Smiles, She Empowers, While Simultaneously Grieving & Mourning”, with guest, Saidat Abari. Her journey is a profound exam...
Apr 23, 2025•24 min
As we go forward to prioritize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 114 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, Extracting the Beauty Tangled in Knots of Fear-Based Living. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 71 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 71, titled “Untangling Beauty from Her Tangled Web of Fears”, with guest, Garcia Hanson. Her journey is a profound example of what it takes to break free from the...
Apr 09, 2025•23 min
As we extend to prioritize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 113 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, transformation of the imposter, the uncertainty and her infertility. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 45 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 45, titled “Ending the Era of the Uncertainty, the Imposter, & the Infertility”, with guest, Alyza Raithatha. Her journey is a deeply moving exploration o...
Mar 26, 2025•22 min
Jennifer shares her raw and transformative journey from burnout to self-reinvention, proving that it's never too late to rewrite your story. Approaching her 50th birthday, Jennifer found herself at an unexpected crossroads—divorced, an empty nester, unemployed, and bedridden with a stress-related illness—all within a single year. The weight of these life changes led to complete burnout, forcing her to take a few leaves of absence from work. She felt stripped of her identity. She had always been ...
Mar 12, 2025•53 min
As we proceed to neutralize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 111 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, an empath’s healing journey despite mental health barriers. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 29 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 29, titled “The Breakthrough of a High-Functioning Empath Meets Malfunctioning Mental Health Habits”, with guest, Parul Pandya. Her journey is an open window into the...
Feb 26, 2025•21 min
As we carry onward to neutralize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 110 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, focuses on self-love, learning it fully and embodying it completely. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 83 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 83, titled “Her story unravelled as she commenced the de-layering process of unworthiness stemming from childhood”, with guest, Tara Myshrall. Her journ...
Feb 12, 2025•27 min
As we continue forward to normalize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 109 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, focuses on the grit it takes to halt the deep perpetual abuse cycle. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 69 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 69, titled “Until She Believed in Herself, the Cycle of Abuse Continued”, featuring Alexandra Pinto. Her journey is a powerful example of breaking fr...
Jan 29, 2025•29 min
After over 20 years of building a successful business, Marcia’s life changed dramatically on March 30, 2014, when she suffered a stroke that turned her world upside down. In an instant, she lost her ability to speak, experienced paralysis, and had to confront the reality of rebuilding her life from the ground up. The road to recovery was anything but easy. Marcia faced aphasia, which meant relearning how to communicate while struggling with progress that often felt unpredictable. She worked tire...
Jan 15, 2025•46 min
Listen to Episode 25: APPLE SPOTIFY YOUTUBE SITE As we extend to prioritize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 107 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, focuses on re-gaining control even when you feel stripped of having control. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 25 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 25, titled: ““The Dis-ease of Trauma, Murder & Death Came her way,' with guest, Carys Cragg. Her ...
Dec 18, 2024•29 min
Listen to Episode 19: APPLE SPOTIFY YOUTUBE SITE As we proceed to prioritize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 106 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, focuses on mindfulness in daily life, despite your untold story. In relation to this episode topic the prior episode 19 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 19, titled: “Her Unwavering Faith Conquered the Cancer and Every Other Wall that Came Her way”, featuring Nadia ...
Dec 04, 2024•29 min
Listen to Episode 82: APPLE SPOTIFY YOUTUBE SITE As we go forward to equalize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 105 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, focuses on navigating family dynamics. In relation to the episode topic, the prior episode 82 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 82, titled: “A Mother Learning to Effectively Parent Children with Mental Health and Addiction Challenges”, with guest Maureen Towns. Her...
Nov 20, 2024•22 min
From leading a busy and fulfilling life to battling one cancer after another, Trent faced an unexpected and devastating prognosis: less than a five percent chance of survival and potentially only a year to live. Compounding this grim news were discussions about amputating his leg. However, thanks to his father’s advocacy, alternative options became available. Throughout his health journey, Trent encountered numerous challenges, including post-surgical complications, infections, and misdiagnoses....
Nov 06, 2024•53 min
Listen to Episode 77: APPLE SPOTIFY YOUTUBE SITE As we proceed to normalize the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 103 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, focuses on taking charge of your mental health and owning your parts. In relation to the episode topic, the prior episode 77 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 77, titled: “The Entrepreneurship Struggle: Unspoken Hardships Refined and Transformed”, with guest, Ethan F...
Oct 23, 2024•25 min
Listen to Episode 46: APPLE SPOTIFY YOUTUBE SITE As we continue to embrace the unique concept of mental beauty, episode 102 of the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, focuses on navigating seasonal mental health challenges and changes. In relation to the episode topic, the prior episode 46 has been selected for further exploration and deeper dive. In episode 46, titled: “Stepping into an Unexpected Path of Truths, Leading her to Something Incredible”, with guest, Ste...
Oct 09, 2024•17 min
Listen to Episode 16: APPLE SPOTIFY YOUTUBE SITE Listen to Episode 17: APPLE SPOTIFY YOUTUBE SITE The first of its kind, introducing the Dare To Share Your Untold Story Podcast, Mental Beauty Segments, as we have surpassed the 100th episode, it’s time to forward into a direction that allows us to continue to extrapolate learnings and shed light onto mental beauty. Up until now, we have had guests come on to the show sharing their true untold stories and its impact on their mental well-being, as ...
Sep 24, 2024•19 min
Can you believe it? We have reached the 100th episode milestone, with the opportunity to celebrate and honour brave guests who have come forward, take stock of how it all began and where we are headed. Salima takes the daring seat to share the journey to the 100th episode. She openly shares thoughts she entertained as well as what she didn’t even think about as she kept her focus on spreading the word about breaking down the barriers of mental stigma and embracing the concept of ‘mental beauty’....
Sep 11, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Deriving from her personal perspective of colourism and how she has been impacted by it in the form of oppression, Francoise shares her own personal experience and witnessing in her own family and with various skin shades based on the eyes of society. She delves into how emotional well-being is intertwined into colourism, and the focus and interpretation of beauty and how its perception can tie in with racism, social acceptance, and environmental factors all play a role in the by-product of colo...
Jul 25, 2024•55 min
Living in Toronto, Ontario, Gladys spoke about a particular time in her life during 2020/2021 where she faced extra demands in her work role, as well as marital discord as the relationship with her now ex-husband had taken a toll on her. Flooded with demands at work and on the go in her multifaceted work role and then only to return home to a negative and intense environment dealing with some tough interactions. She describes that there wasn’t really a place for her to really think she can sit d...
Jul 10, 2024•46 min
As a child Farhan was always told that he would be a failure and that he didn’t have potential. He faced resistance from family; however, he forged a pathway forward to becoming the helping professional he is today. His story includes himself, his family and society at large. Being a first- generation South Asian queer male, growing up in Canada, he realizes that his family was doing the best that they could, though they had specific expectations that resisted the pathway. Farhan described how h...
Jun 26, 2024•56 min
Olga dives in to share that even when she was on the brink of burnout, initially she could only see it as a stress leave from work. Her story unravels her experience of her lost sense of self while battling through burnout as she worked with students and clients in the international students and immigration sector. It was September 2022 when she identified there was a shift in her energy, feeling frustrations and irritability, simultaneously the political unrest that continued forward with the i...
Jun 12, 2024•58 min
Funmi shares the impact of an unfortunate teenage sexual assault, immigrating to Canada, marital challenges, the loss of both her parents within the span of 18 months, shame, and regrets along the way and how it all has forged her character and identity of who she has become today. She details that it took her a decade to work through the trauma of sexual assault and violent rape endured at age 17, which robbed her of her virginity and her innocence. This led to further impact of her sense of lo...
May 29, 2024•57 min
Phoenix grew up in East Germany, still communist in 1972 with an enabling father, growing up being parented with a narcissistic mother she explains. Phoenix shares that she grew up in darkness, and her mother was lost within herself, not knowing her own identity, Phoenix slowly started to get to know herself, and as she did this, she felt she was shedding light on herself. Phoenix expressed that she really struggled to sort out who she was and what she wanted to be and felt that she was not lova...
May 15, 2024•55 min
In his early 20’s, Sergio was living his best life, while performing well in secure employment that was inclusive of salary, pension, benefits, vacation time and all the bells and whistles. Sergio was excelling in his career, landing achievements and promotions, and studying part time. His life took a sharp turn after he sustained severe injuries following a car accident as a passenger coming home from his birthday celebration. Given the driver went into shock, Sergio was the one to make the 911...
May 01, 2024•46 min
Sarah delves into a moment when she was 10 years old experiencing her very first panic attack, not knowing what it was at the time. Growing up in a Christian faith, Sarah believed that she would get the support she needed given her belief that God helps to overcome the sensations of panic – the promise of faith. She later experienced depression in her first year of university when she experienced 3 losses in her life from suicide, heart disease and cancer. The latter was her maternal grandmother...
Apr 17, 2024•52 min
Sonia’s untold story revolves around her breast cancer diagnosis starting in 2017. She experienced physical and emotional trauma combined with heightened feelings. She had to work hard to overcome overwhelming thoughts and emotional pain when dealing with relationships during her cancer journey. This experience has been eye-opening, particularly in learning who she can rely on as her backbone and who she felt she still needed to support while under-going her own duress. Outwardly, Sonia was perc...
Apr 03, 2024•52 min
Her untold story reveals the levels of toxicity and bullying Stephanie experienced as she entered the workforce in a professional capacity, the way in which she tolerated workplace harassment, and how she eventually learned to handle the distress she endured. Stephanie shared that while her work role was at an established organization and she was not doing any physical labour, she found that the emotional and mental toll she experienced because of the workplace toxicity and negative environment ...
Mar 20, 2024•48 min
